Multiple grip handle



July 25, 1933. H. s. JANES MULTIPLE GRIP HANDLE f/VVNTOA Herr 5. JamesFiled Oct. 15, 1931 15 etc, are encountered by amateur players, forafclub;

free swing of the arms, All teachers en and side by side. The playershands are In the multiple grip which I have destance, the wood shaft maybe split or slot 8 '40 To provide such a multiple grip in which 4, andthe grip .or handles covered with 00 i Y 45 additional grip for use onstandard clubs to in this position by the winding, such as 10.

Patented July 25, 1933 I 1,919,22

TST A Application filed october 15, 9 Saar im jseaei z g," l Mylnvention relates 1n general to a mulspecificembodiments shown wlthoutdeparttiple grip, and more specificallyto agmullng'fromftlre spiritof'myinvention. 5

, tiple grip handle for ajgolf club brother "In thefacco npanyingdrawingz like devices. For ease of illustration Ihave Fig; =1- s a fuchosen to show my improved multiple grip vided wi'th'multiple grips-inaccordance' with in connection ith a golf club. to whieh itis myinvent1on,1a nd showing "the players especially adapted. The handle orgrip of hands in the position they may occupy on my improved designpermits a player 'to the 'gri'psf s i V I grasp. a club with both handsin a natural ,FigsuEZ, 3, and ashew successive stagesin manner and toswing the same accurately the forming of -a niultiplegrip-ona wooden 60and with an ease hithertoimpossible with shaft, l 1- the standard typeof club handle. 'Figs 5' and 6 show stages in" the construc- As is wellknown to golf players, many tion-of a multiple'grip on a's'teel shaft;

difliculties, such as slicing,toppingtthe ball, Fig. 7 shows a"multiple' grip attachment due to the distorted position oftheplay'efl's Fig. 8 'shows?thefclamping element for arms and shoulderso'ccasionedby the necesnip'lngflm f- Fig- 7% "a S f sity of grasping thesingle shaft'of the club Fig. 9fish iws t 1e devi g'S- 1 1 with bothhands, It is apparent that with h d o l f haf fi I the present clubs,one hand must be above -Referri'ng fo -Fig: 1,'I" haveyendeavored T theother on the shaft of the club, and, o illustrate the principle of theinvention therefore, one shouldernaturally assumes a pph d t0 t o.d VB01'' Wood Shaft golf position above the other. This grip also club. At 1and 2 are shoWIl e, W mfll cramps the wristsqand interferes with the tple g ips arranged parallel to each other.

deavor to teach an overlapping or interlockshown grasping the, twogrips. The shaft ing grip in order to compensate for this 3 attached tothe customary head14:.may unnatural position of the hands on the club bedivided in any desired mannerpsuch as handle. illustrated in Figs. "2,3, and 4. For ink I signed each hand assumes a natural posi ted as shownin Fig. 2,"and the tWo fseo-. tion on a separate grip, the arms andshoultions 5 and 6 bentoutward, as-shown. I An ders are in likepositions, and a free swing insert? may be placed in the crotchfof theofthe arms is permitted to aid in case and split portion. and half-roundinserts such accuracy of swing. as 8 and 9 zmay be applied to: the two 8Among the objects of my invention are: branches 5' and 6 tocomplete therounded to provide a multiple grip for use with a grips, asshown inFig.8. The complete" golf club, cricket bat, or other like deviceassembly may then be glued in place and having a separate handle foreach hand; wound with strongtwine, as shown in Fig.

the grips or handles lie parallel to each other leather or Chamois as iscustomary wvith or approximately parallel so that both hands golf clubhandles. The. parts 5 and '6 are assume like positions; [bent back intoparallel positions over. the To provide an attachment consisting of anshoulder 7, as shown in Fig. 3, and held provide a multiple grip; and toprovide A multiple grip maybe found on a steel other features ofimprovement which will shaft club, as shown i Figs. 5 and 6, in befurther elaborated upon in the following a. somewhat similar manner bysplitting the detailed description. It will be understood steel shaft 11of the club, as shown in Fig.

that certain changes may be made in the 5, and insertlng an element suchasl2 to sists of the extra grip 16 wound to the closed, the

form the completely rounded multiple grips. The element 12 may be formedin any de sired manner, and maybe either welded to part 11 or rivetedthereto. In either the club farther down at a while the player withslender hands may grasp the club at b. The two ends of the multiple gripmay be held together by an element, such as 13, which may be insertedinto the ends of each grip l4 and 15 to hold them rigid. In Fig. 7 Ihave shownj-an' attachmentin the form of an extra grip which may besecured to any-club, as shown in .Fig. being clamped to the shaftthereof. It con- P per size, a curved portion 17, and. another part 18of the clamp having holes 19 registering with the holes in part 17through which rivets or bolts and nuts may be inserted to clamp the gripto the club. 7

With two grips side by side as herein displayer may grasp the club withboth hands in like position without changing thenatural position of hisshoulders, the hands will be close together, and yet each have a naturalgrip on the club. The shoulders will both have a like elevation and thestance or position taken by the player when addressing the golf ballwill be the details shown without departing from the spirit of myinvention. I

Having fully described and ascertained the features and aspects of lnyinvention,

what I consider to. be new and desire to have'protected by LettersPatent will be pointed out in the appended claims. WVhat'is claimedis:

.end into two parts, each part-bent outward at like angles to the shaftand then back into substantially. parallel relation to each other,inserts added to each part and wrappings around eachpart to form grips-3. In a golf club, a shaft split into two sections bent outward and backtogether to: form multiple handles parallel to each other,

and means for holding the two handles in spaced relation and forpreventingfurther splitting of'the shaft.

HARRY s; JANES.

1 so 1. A golf club having a shaft split-at

